The Project thinks
Dissertation forming, now coming together from a starting point, which is finally growing into a plan I can work from. And from betwixt these writings comes ideas for the Project, one reflecting both my undeniable interest in all things internet and this exploration in cross-cultural communication. Of course what links these two branches is the Internet's magnificent ability to spread itself across oceans, fields, deserts and into space. Anyone with a laptop or mobile phone can access an Internet page almost anywhere in the world. The loneliest place in the world can be filled with the sounds or images of this amazing network of everlasting, unstoppable lovers. We can all make our presence on the web, and many of us do, whether it be an email account, chat room, a home page or an entry in a forum. How can I ask these questions, though without feeling guilty? How can I talk about loneliness or use phrases like 'cross-cultural', 'anyone', and 'anywhere' without feeling guilty that so many included in the cultures, how any of those in the 'anyone' or 'anywhere' have no access to the internet and are instead starving and homeless, or alone and ill? HIV, cancer, poverty? I mean, how much money would we get if we stopped building computers or paying eb-designers and built houses and shipped off medicine? How much could we build from melting down every computer in the world connected to the internet and making metal houses? I don't know. Why are our fellow hum beings dying while we surf and folk like me attempt to 'explore cross cultural communication' if we carry on, how many cultures will there be left to cross? nm.
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